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We're living in the midst of the digital revolution, and fortunately most of us (if not all) don't have to risk torture and death to share books on our Kindles. But when Gutenberg invented the printing press, the price for ...

How does a leading digital-technology publication organize a digital book about organizing digital life? Created and distributed on the Vook platform, Get Organized: How to Clean Up Your Messy Digital Life is a how-to guide for reimagining your digital life ...

How many hours did you spend studying for your driving test, flipping through that State-distributed "rules of the road" manual over and over again? Your state government made sure you learned the laws, but did they teach you your rights? ...

Knowledge@Wharton and Ernst & Young innovate with ebooks  Vook has proudly powered Knowledge@Wharton and Ernst & Young's collaborative ebooks. Knowledge@Wharton and Ernst & Young have once again used ebooks to establish themselves as thought leaders. They've published a free, video-enhanced ebook, Mobile Banking: ...

Introducing PhiLOLZophy, the latest Kindle Single. Two blogging powerhouses collide to deliver modern-day philosophy in a modern-day omnibus.  Bloggers-turned-publishers Thought Catalog and PhiLOLZophy joined forces to release a collection of the latter's best original essays, PhiLOLZophy: Critical Thinking in Digestible ...

New to digital publishing? This is the first place to start when considering your e-publishing options. So, what's an ebook? Ebooks are digital books (as opposed to binded print books) that can be read on computers, e-reading devices, and smartphones, ...

Zack Parsons, bestselling author of Liminal States and editor of SomethingAwful.com, has released a collection of satirical, acerbic stories in Wages: Future Tales of a Hired Gun, created and distributed by Vook. In the book’s near future, private military contractors ...

Are Anglophiles born or made? Or cultured in a medium of suet and sentimentality, romanticism and Marmite? So begins Thought Catalog's latest ebook, England My England: Anglophilia Explained, by Mark Dery. As we announced last year, the popular blog launched ...

For a few months now, the popular blog Thought Catalog has been publishing a series of candid ebooks on drugs, relationships, travel, sex, high school, and everything in between. How to Tell if Somebody Loves You: A Collection of Essays ...

Vook’s Adam Schnapper shows off fixed-layout's possibilities with his gorgeously illustrated new book Many authors and publishers are still working out the pros and cons of reflowable and fixed-layout ebooks. In the past, we’ve explained the difference between the two ...

If you read our recent post about Brian Donovan’s Not A Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters, you’d know that navigating the world of online dating can sometimes feel like stepping across a minefield. Fortunately, help has arrived ...

Vook authors receive a special discount on Authro services. In an effort to help our clients increase customers and drive ebook sales, Vook has partnered with Authro to offer professional, customized author websites and engaging book trailers—essential marketing tools for ...

What are keywords? Although search engines are very good at sifting through millions of pages, they’re still not very good at parsing bundles of text or images to work out what they’re really about. Consequently, search engines rely on human-entered ...

Valentine’s Day is coming up fast! Whether it’s stories of true love that interest you or the travails of internet dating, the Vook store has something for you this Valentine’s Day. We’ve hand-picked 16 titles on love, sex, and everything ...

A good golf book is worth its weight in nine irons. With words alone, it can be very hard to describe the subtle yet crucial changes to grip, stance, swing and myriad other factors that may be necessary if you ...

Yesterday, in “Turning Newspapers into Ebooks: Part 1,” we went through the reasons news organizations should consider creating ebooks from their archived content. Today, we're looking at a few examples and how the process of creating the ebooks works. Select ...

Embracing the latest digital strategy in news Even with the transition to digital, newspapers still offer the world the first draft of history. But with the digital revolution, many news organizations are struggling to find ways to extract the most ...

Creating an Immersive, Award-Winning Ebook Publishing Innovation Award for nonfiction winner 11 Days in May: The Conversation That Will Change Your Life is no ordinary ebook. Written over the course of eleven days, it is a story of author JD ...

Ever been on a bad date? You’re not alone—but we doubt you’ve suffered through as many as Brian Donovan. Donovan is a writer and comedian who has written for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Public Radio International, and performed ...

In the fast-moving world of syndicated columns, older content can easily be buried under the new. But with the recent release of the first in a series of ebooks with Vook, Project Syndicate has succeeded in highlighting the continuing value ...